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Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

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Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

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In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

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I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

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My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

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Born: October 22, 1811

Died: July 31, 1886 (aged 74)

Bio: Franz Liszt was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, philanthropist and Franciscan tertiary.

Known for:

Les préludes
Orpheus
Prometheus
Hunnenschlacht
Hamlet

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